Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d1147a35291ae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6df54545d00650d4780344b690ab3cd2 SHA-1: 2d582ec4a98f6d28713710b3ad85e0516ff78bd4 SHA-256: 03d1147a35291ae0a075043ae10b88f2acf5a7045f73c0e8fef9cbcaf046d31e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains identified as compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The file's structure as a link farm is supported by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1623392261.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/deziwiwetufumabewirixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/12595631500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/90383752841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_45B9106EA503965B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4711afb4ad0b72662c27e3ccbe075a/73187040294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/mogarenejone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rwdwebwebdesign.com/img-aim/files/xexidozorukikanaxapojigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/93483026690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a749b378c17---natonomumisisavofavafixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/roxirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/zunimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///58298396872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/jofozupezeburozupaluwajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/68745840752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b4fb896a4a4e18fe058729f1df5e8f/95468871852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755a049b865---digipolarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/23450557461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9u96l0865422ncp4toq0qtfen/85317006160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41476779083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/zanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210801080652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=quail+farming+project+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1A9 11084 bytes
SHA-256: a811bd1ced32289e43e073f5f2d8d11715761ef76beb7de4a5ce58d4b44e4f52
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e35a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35A 14712 bytes
SHA-256: bf9998c0dbaab49c6c5f6ac9fe653418657422f2138406e8439dbd72a866f641